The benevolent banner., 1887-07-02
DOMESTIC.

consumed one eyebrow, and played other
fantastic tricks with him. He suffered IN
tensely, but is recovering under medical
treatment.
The decrease of wheat in store at Mime
apolis, st. Paul, and Duluth last week ag-
gregated $4,000 bushels. The shipments
from Minneapolis we're the largest on
record. It is thought the receipts will be
very small from this time until after har-
vest.
The striking ore-handIers at Cleveland
assaulted colored "scab," who would have
been killed but for the timely arrival of the
police. One of the miscreants was arrested.
The new silver vaults in the treasury
building at Washington will not be COM
pie ed for several months. Meantime the
department officials find themselves EN- par
rassed by lack Of facilities for the storage
of the constantly increasing accumulation
of buzzard dollars.
A shortage of several thousand dollars has
been discovered in the treasury of the
notorious district assembly No. 49, of the
Powderly society, located at New York.
new cabinet has been formed in Servia,
with M. Ristics as premier and minister of
foreign affairs.
Six wagon-loads of gambling parapher-
MALTA. confscated by the police, were pub
licly burned at Atlanta, Georgia. The value
of the stuff is placed at $4,000, and the
gamblers threaten to sue the city for dam
ages.
Sidney A. Dwight, cashier of the Cox
6ackie, New York national bank, is short
between $50,001 and $4,000 in his accounts.
He is 65 years old and a respected citizen"
fire in Lulea, Sweden, destroyed the
town hall, church, and mauy other build
ings.
very rigid Sunday observance law was
passed by the Missouri Legislature, and the
police of st. Louis are preparing for it's
strict enforcement 1t prohibits the open
ing of saloons, billiard rooms, theaters,
bowling alleys, el-gardens, and baseball
grounds on Sunday. The saloons have
combined to fight the law, and will make a
test case to determine its constitutionality
William Wood, of the Grand Trunk rail
road, was elected president of the Master
Oarbuilders' association, which is holding
it's annual convention at Minneapolis.
A London dispatch says that dynamite
plot, to be carried out daring the Jubilee
celebration. has been discovered. The DO
lice are Withholding the details for the
present.
John Bright has written an open letter to
Mr.. Gladstone apologizlng for inaccurately
quoting his recent speech at Swansea, and
expressing regret that his conscience and
Judgment forbid him from acting with him
on the Irish question.
Eight hundred houses have been DESTROYED
by fire in the city of Botuschany, Roumania.
Seven persons perished in the cOnfegration.
Mis- Caroline Heisler, who moved in
fashionable soc ty in Brooklyn, drowned
herself at Clifton Beach because, as is eup-
posed, Of disappointment in love-" The
body has been recovered.
The queens jubilee was celebrated at Glas-
gov by memorial religious service, a
review of ten thousand troops, and num-
Der of balls and banquets. Six thousand
poor people were given dinner at the pub
lie expense.
-Four Thousand of the striking cokework-
ers in Pennsylvania have returned to work
at the old wages. This practically ends the
strike, which ha' lasted three months and
embraced about twelve thousand men.
Mr.. Dillon, Parnellite, will ask the Eng
lsh government to order an inquiry into the
conduct of the police during the evictions
at Bodyke.
The United States consul general at
Berlin, in an official report upon the state
of German trade and manufactures, says
the increase in exports is mainly due to the
low wages prevailing in that country, which
permits the underselllng of foreign COM
petitOrs.
The Dacoits are committing many
depredations and outrages in Burmah.
In their weekly trade review r. G. Dun &
Co., congratulate the commercial public that
two of the great speculations by which legiti-
mate business has been embarrassed for
months have come to an end without disas-
ter to other parties save those who invited
disaster. This refers, of course, to the Chi
cagO wheat corner and the New York coffee
deal. The cotton prospects are more favor
able than for seven years past. The iron
market is depressed by the breaking of
the coke combination. Railroad earnings
continue large. Imports are in creasing
and exports falling off. Trade general
ly is in satisfactory condition, al
though stringency in the money market is
reported from some important financial
centers. The business failures in the United
States numbered 213, as compared with 155
during the corresponding week of last year.
the increase being due to the grain gamblers
panic.
A New York paper has obtained from sew
eral southern governors expressions of
opinion as to the proposition to return the
captured rebel flags to the various states.
All of them applauded the spirit of the prop
osition. and with the exception of Governor
Gorden, of Georgia, all though its execu-
tlon would have a happy effect upon the
country. The expressions were made be
fore the order for the return of the flags had
been rescinded by the president.
The Andover heresy trials have resulted in
the dismissal Of President Smith and Pro
fessor Woodruff, of the theological seminary.
In collision on the SchuylkiI Valley
railroad, near PhRnixyille. PENNSYLVANIA,
one man was killed and another dangerous
ly hurt.
The soldiers and sailors monument at
East hock park III New Haven, Connecticut
was dedicated, with imposing ceremonies.
f. Trigg, eastern passenger agent of the
ONO and Chesapeake railroad. committed
suicide, by drowning, at Niagara falls.
James B. Malcow, lunatic. escaped from
the insane asylum at St. Joseph, Mo-, and
went TO his home at Cover, twenty miles
distant, where he ATTEMPTED to murder ~
wife, and her brother, Herbert Allen. They
made desperate resistance and finally 90